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Can't I scan in some cash and send it by mail to you? The last time I dealt with paypal it was such a fucking pain in the ass that I cba to go through that again, plus they take a criminal cut from all deposits

We may hope, but the reality is that he has no reason whatsoever to stay if he has any ambition in him, which I'm sure he does. However, selling to Arsenal would be the ultimate stupidity, even worse than Mata to United. Though I can see Cech considering it on some level, because if he's settled in England he wouldn't need to change homes and in London Arsenal are pretty much the only other club who has the potential to get a sniff of our raging behind. I can see it only happening if Cech expresses his desire to go there and the club, classy as they are, honour his wish. But Petr, don't do it, I heard Spain and Italy have nice climates and I'm sure you could establish a new home just nicely over there.

All of Muzchap's donations have been nothing short of heroic, lowest amount being 30 pounds. Give the guy a statue.

That own goal was the funniest thing I've seen in a long. Watching us play is better than watching porn.

Exactly.. do we need to replace somebody who never plays? I think not. Second choice Schürrle is lucky to get a sniff, everybody else below pecking order has no chance. Rather give those puny coc minutes to some academy player. If Cech is out then the only ones I can think of are Salah and Kalas, maybe Mikel too though I doubt it.

If he keeps up this goal ratio then in five years time he will have exactly around about one million goals to his name. Though I wouldn't trust meself I was never strong at maths.

IS is a stretch, a very big stretch. Actually currently they are nothing, as Jose said - no titles, no trophies, no nothing. Will become, maybe it's fair to think that, but at the moment - nothing

Paulo the hedgehog, I guess he had too much STING in him to let that fucker (Anelka u say?) get too close to him.

Man City of 2011/12 would disagree.

Cech Ivanovic - Carvalho - Terry - Cole Essien - Makelele - Lampard Zola - Drogba - Hazard Everybody in their prime would be a devastating team, moreso than what we currently are.

NOT MY FAULT

Hypothetically if we were to get both of them, who would make room? Because both of them have to be starters. Bale is a winger, Reus would be bought in as a winger most likely.. so who makes way out of the two? Or would we drop Hazard? Not gonna happen, unless we make a swoop between Hazard<->Bale, which hopefully isn't going to happen. Why break a fully functioning team and start basically from scratch? I call nonsense. Reus and Varane might be possible, though not so sure in the need of Varane either. Bale would have only happened if he were 30+ and we were still the Chelsea of 2007. At the moment he's A) too expensive, B )what I said above - would cause too much unnecessary headaches trying to fit in something that can't be fit in without taking something out.

When I think about it... no one, at least for starting XI. Maybe Seamus Coleman as backup for RB. But every other obvious choice a la Agüero, Toure, Di Maria etc. wouldn't accept backup roles and I don't want them starting either.

He will once Jose done with him.

And is it like that now? Because I can remember quite a few games where we scraped through. We are good, probably the best in the league currently, but we could be better and we should be better, if we are going for everything. We will have a squeaky spell and then I doubt you'll be so confident of our dominance.

It's a non-question. Summer, because January is bad luck. And so far this season we have no reason to disrupt our functioning team. I would be for January only if other teams went in aggressively and left us no choice.

I understand if you were neutral and had that view, but as a Chelsea supporter you're basically saying you want us to deliberately hinder our development so that others could have a sniff. This is quite complacent, don't get arrogant over a few months of good spell, remember the history. I think in the coming seasons you'll be surprised of how competitive the premier league still is, even if we do happen to run away with it this season. Here you never have a dominant force for prolonged periods of time, thus we need to constantly be on the look-out and evolve, so that our inevitable fall from potential dominance gets pushed further and further into the future. Also, sitting on the fence seriously hurts your butt, so get your ass to the YES camp.

You listed players who can play his position, but is it a luxury buy if he actually improves those positions? When I think of luxury buys I normally think of players who are at most the same level as the ones we already have, but he would take our team up another level, which is what we strive for. In terms of individual quality our squad would be very close, if not on par, with the Reals and Bayerns of the world. And we know that Jose will make those individuals absolutely brilliant together. SIGN!

Anybody still considers him a right back after playing two seasons straight at left?

I don't know who you are, I don't know what you want. What I do know is that I have a very particular set of skills, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Granted, I'm not very regular in here anymore lately, but when did this Schürrle hate begin? And why? I don't get it..

That is the problem. However I do hope the likes of Chalobah, Baker and Lofty Cheek get a fair chance one season. I especially like Baker, what a player. In an ideal world those three would be our future midfield trio, but I'll celebrate if even one of them gets through.

The minimum I want is for the team to have somebody or somebodies who can speak fluent English in British accent in interviews. It gets cringeworthy when the best speakers you have are a bunch of Oscars who struggle to get their point across, while proudly proclaiming to be english team. I used to mock Arsenal for that. There should be an English representative always present. And by that I don't mean a third choice goalkeeper.. But I doubt we'll have as strong British presence as we used to in Cole, Bridge, Terry, Lamps, J.Cole, Duff in a long time (forgive me if I missed someone).

Use torrents for motd.

Ivanovic and Cesar have been working good so far so I see no reason to replace them. Luis will need to work his way into the team just like Azpi did.